Criminal sanctions for violating the prohibition of dual citizenship, as per the proposed Article 10 of the Law on making amendments to the Criminal Code, should be considered in the light of Article 3 of the First Protocol of the ECHR. A blanket restriction on the right to stand for election due to dual citizenship would likely be considered a disproportional restriction. As long as Armenia accepts dual citizenship, holding two citizenships should not be ground for ineligibility to be elected to the parliament and thus not criminalised.